Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.
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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
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I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
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India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
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You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.
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As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
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I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
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There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce c. 1880, when Munch started to paint series of landscapes in fresh colors
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Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy, but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way. So if you want to use Linux to control an industrial welding laser, I have no problem with your using
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In choosing people for specific jobs previous experience should not be a guide. I never put a man in the job which he thought he knew. Often the 'experts' make the worst possible Ministers in their own fields. In this country we prefer rule by amateurs.
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It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort
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Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
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When you are doing chemo, you have a load of time.
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I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
